Listening credibility

Ever been in a meeting where some one speaks before they listen? Can be very annoying! This may not come as a surprise to those who have ever been in consulting and thrived in that environment but listening is rather difficult. It takes a special skill to listen; a typical person will create an opinion long before they have heard the entire argument and more times than not blurt out irrelevant or even logically challenging responses to a discussion.

For those familiar with MECE (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive) I wonder if there are MECE answers to questions. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to answer questions without ever hearing them yet not going wrong? I am not talking about invoking the 5th.

We all need to play politics but I guess it takes more than that to be right.

I recommend instituting a measure of “listening credibility”?